Two Physicians' Views from the Device Innovator's Workbench
Executive Summary
Interviews with physician/entrepreneurs Michael Lesh, who launched Atrionix, and William New, Jr., founder of Nellcor, discussing moviemaking and the Zen of device start-ups.
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